Report: Kerry was Thrown Out of Vietnam
Fri May 14th, 2004 22:01 MSTMilitary Historian John B. Dwyer interviewed Commander Wright, one of Kerry’s Commanding Officers on the Swift Boats. His article at The American Thinker is revealing. Some excerpts :
Thomas Wright was one of John F. Kerry’s fellow Swift boat officers in Vietnam. Since Wright outranked Kerry, he was Kerry’s sometime boat group Officer-in-Charge, so Wright had occasion to observe Kerry’s behavior and attitudes, and the circumstances surrounding his early departure from the war zone. The intervening years have not dimmed his memories.…
boat captains adopted distinctive, often humorous call signs for identification purposes. Eldon Thompson was “Mary Poppins,” William Schachte was “Baccardi Charlie,” James T. Grace was “Twiggy,” and Tom Wright was “Dudley Do-Right.” When John Kerry radioed another Swift boat, he used the call sign, “Boston Strangler.”
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Working with call sign “Boston Strangler” became problematical. “I had a lot of trouble getting him to follow orders,” recalls Wright. “He had a different view of leadership and operations. Those of us with direct experience working with Kerry found him difficult and oriented towards his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives. I believed that overall responsibility rested squarely on the shoulders of the OIC or OTC in a free-fire zone. You had to be right (before opening fire). Kerry seemed to believe there were no rules in a free-fire zone and you were supposed to kill anyone. I didn’t see it that way.”
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It got to a point where Wright told his divisional commander he no longer wanted Kerry in his boat group, so he was re-assigned to another one. “I had an idea of his actions but didn’t have to be responsible for him.” Then Wright and like-minded boat officers took matters into their own hands. “When he got his third Purple Heart, three of us told him to leave. We knew how the system worked and we didn’t want him in Coastal Division 11. Kerry didn’t manipulate the system, we did.”
Wow. I can’t wait until this story appears on “60 Minutes.”
Actually, no one alive can wait that long.
Glad your busy, perhaps you could ask your leader why he doesn’t feel your same sense of urgency.
President George Bush has spent more than 40% of his presidency at one of his three retreats, sparking criticism from Democrats that he is not taking his job seriously at a crucial time in US history.
Mr Bush was on his 33rd visit to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, at the Easter weekend, where he has spent 233 days or almost eight months since his inauguration, according to a tally by CBS news. Add his 78 visits to Camp David and five to Kennebunkport, Maine, and he has spent all or part of 500 days out of the office while in office.
Mr Bush was at his ranch on August 6 2001 as part of a month-long holiday when he received the briefing warning of Osama bin Laden’s determination to attack the US, which has become a focal point of the 9/11 commission of inquiry.
On Thursday the president watched his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, give her testimony on television, then toured his ranch with the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, before giving an interview to Ladies Home Journal.
Regardless of what is going on in the world Mr Bush is usually in bed by 10pm and wakes at 6am. As governor of Texas he would be in work by 8.30am and out by 5.30pm. In between was a 90-minute to two-hour break for exercise or a nap.
President spends 40% of time out of the office
Gary Younge in New York
Monday April 12, 2004
The Guardian ARTICLE
I’ve got to admit, this is the dumbest criticism yet about Bush.
Do you know anything about communications? I know a lot about it, both military and civilian, both data and voice. Do you really think George Bush is not working when he is at a retreat? Do you really think he is not meeting with people? Do you have a clue about how executives live their lives?
Obviously you imagine the president should be a wage slave with a time clock. How pathetic. His job is to think and communicate. He can do that anywhere - he is always within seconds of the world’s most sophisticated communications systems. When he needs to meet with people, he can fly them to where he is at.
WAIT
Now I understand your criticism. You are worried that when he isn’t at the oval office, he can’t physically pull the little strings under the desk which are used to run the whole government. Don’t worry, he has people to pull them for him if needed. I would suggest that you return to your medication - you aren’t doing to well without your Risperidone.
I am glad he gets plenty of sleep. Recent studies have shown that people do not function as well without 8 hours of sleep - even those that claim to do well on less.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/14/gannon/index_np.html
Salon.com | The Vietnam investor behind the “Swift Boat Vets” attack
Wait a minute, I thought that when GWB was at one of his offsite retreats he just watched 3 Stooges movies and played video games. Are you trying to tell me he actually works!
He needs to take some lessons from Slick Willy and stay put in the WH and learn to utilize the interns a little more for his relaxation.
Michael Pugliese
In other words, when you can’t refute the facts, go after another combat Veteran and smear his character.
The Kerry smear machine in action.
Don’t worry though, there are plenty more vets after Kerry, because his biggest crimes were after the war, and were in public and on public record.
Idiotarian’s technique of debates
A said the earth is flat.
B said the earh is not flat.
A’s supporters said B lies at least once in his life. That makes all statements B made not credible.
As a matter of fact, all idiotarians subscribe to this method whether they are illiterate or having a PhD in tampontry techonology. Trust is the most important criterion of their circle and as a result, they all check their brain at the door and becoming a lemming to follow their leaders, whether it’s Kerry or Chomsky. Remember how Kerry reacted at a townhall’s meeting not long ago? “Are you a Republican”? Instead of refuting by logics and facts, idiotarians smear.
Dilligaf:
The Guardian? THE Guardian, formerly the Manchester Guardian and now a house organ for the Flat Left Earth Society? It doesn’t matter. Forgive my ignorance if there is another Guardian. The one I’m familiar with has been a piece of crap since Malcolm Muggeride left a couple generations ago. I think Glenda Jackson, Neil Kinnock and Bertrand Russell’s ghost are the only subscriber now. Well, maybe Arafat, too.
Why should Bush go to the office? Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Perle, both Kristols, a couple Podhoretz guys, Halliburton, Commentary Magazine, and all the moustache twirlers at The Right Wing Attack Machine are in charge anyway.
The pity in all this that some hack from the Guardian compiled this data, got someone with more than a ganglion to do the calculations for him, and arrived at the dreaded 40% absenteeism.What next? An opinion on the Bush administration from woolly-bear caterpillars in Vermont?
Lan:
Kerry is a lemming. Chomsky is a gnarled, yellow-toothed, flea-bitten, beady-eyed, diseased little rat with a nest made from shredded Che Guevara posters. Norman Mailer scuttles around with Chomsky in the waste-pipe system known as the Literary Left. Next time I won’t mince words; I’ll tell you what I REALLY think…
Lan brought up a good point about Kerry and the Town Hall meeting that took place some weeks ago. For weeks after the event, I daydreamed about what the Town Hall would’ve been like had I been offered the chance to attend and publicly participate in the so-called ‘debate.’
When Kerry responded to a young audience member’s questions by mockingly asking the fellow, “Are a Republican?” I would’ve said, “You’re f- right I’m a Republican, you medal-slinging #%$*(&^!!” And, while we’re at it, Senator–suppose you tell us how you picked-up those three Purple Hearts in less than 120 days’ in-country! And, second, will you explain to us why you feel it necessary to own 11 homes between you and your spouse, you self-indulgent, self-righteous, Politburo-worshipping *&^-$#@%&^*?” (Man, that little diatribe felt therapeutic!)
It’s probably uncessary for me to say here that I’d risk a tour in any one of the world’s most notorious correction facilities’ simply for the opportunity to cold-cock either Kerry or Kennedy, that corpulent, whiskey-drinking, rosacea-faced *&%$#!
Believe it, or not, I once was a Democrat. But that was long before the party became the slur on humanity that it is today.
The president spends too much time on his ranch, his detractors say? I say, his detractors spent too much time in their youth dropping acid, and now they’re intellectually and morally bankrupt.
That’s one vet’s opinion, anyway….
Robert:
Man, you melted my keypad with that one! I’d be honored to hold your coat while you’re busy with these guys. Fantastic. Wow.
Kids, don’t try this at home. President Bush can function while spending so much time away from the White House because:
1. He knows how to delegate.
2. A superb communications system is at his disposal, and he apparently checks it daily.
3. It is refreshing to see a chief executive physically remove himself from the corrupting influences of the land inside the Beltway, which has confused and curdled the brains of those who profess to be more intelligent than Bush.
4. We are not fooled by this pathetic attempt to divert attention away from Sen. Kerry’s frequent absences away from Washington, in a job that requires his physical presence for duties such as voting on bills. At least Bob Dole had the integrity to resign his Senate seat, knowing that regardless of the outcome of the election, his presidential campaign would make tremendous demands on his time.
Bloodthirsty:
Good point. Kerry was absent from Senate votes 70% of the time last year. He was absent 66% of his standard “second” tour in Vietnam and absent 50% of his “first” tour in Vietnam. He made up only a little over 12% of the Moorlocks running for the Democratic nomination, wound up with about 40% of the primary votes, and is only 50% of a full Democratic ticket. He is 50% of a marriage of convenience, and one tenth of one percent of the family wealth, owns only about 8% of the family homes (and only 50%) of that one. He is one percent of the Senate, half a man and tells the truth less than 5% of the time (okay, I made this one up). This percentage game can work both ways.
Rhod,
Do you think that you could back up your assertions with some statistical proof? [:-)
Mike:
Glad you asked. Figures lie and liars figure, but my assertions and calculations are right 97.5% of the time. I might have overestimated Kerry’s percentage of manhood, but I was almost 80% right about it, I would give you odds that he tells the truth about 5% of the time, he’s is fractionally less than 1% of the Senate, in all probability, that is. He just doesn’t add up for me, you know, I don’t like the result at all. He just isn’t the right product for me at this point in the game. His wife is a cute little number, but she doesn’t distribute her cash the right way, but she would be a great little dividend in the White House. All those great curves, but too many strings attached, exponentially wrong about everything. Take that!
Mike:
More to the point. I can’t square John Kerry with anything I have formulated about elements of the political equation.
I wonder if now that Kerry’s daughter put her tits on display in Cannes for the world to see if the liberal press will stop equating Bush as president to Bush as father when his daughters end up doing something stupid that they seem to like to do. By the way nice rack but she sure looks cross eyed in the photos.
Circman:
Teddy already has an enlargement of that photo taped to the sun visor in his new amphibious Olds.
I’m almost sure it’s just me, but–did anyone else note that Kerry’s daughter’s nipples angle ‘left’?
Help me here, someone: Cannes, if memory serves me correctly, is in the south of France, in the heart of the Riviera, right? This means one can easily sunburn there, right?
Should Kerry’s daughter become sunburned while vacationing (first-degree burns), is she entitled to apply for a Purple Heart? I mean, what the hey: there are combat veterans who’ve suffered far-lesser injuries, and still come away with the purple hardware…. Who knows?
Robert:
…you are totally outrageous…Nipples and Purple Hearts. Sounds like the Daily Special from a French luncheon menu…
Correction:
It’s the house special at the best restaurant in Paris.
Rhod, did you say ‘amphibious Olds’? Amphibious Olds?? Man, I’ve laughed for hours over that one!
Well, we’re heading to Duncan, Oklahoma tomorrow to witness my niece’s marriage. Who knows what else we might see while there, John: As you’re well aware, it’s late-May in the great midwest, temperatures are hovering between 70-82 degrees in the southern plains, and that old Oklahoma air is heavy and restless…. Never know…the old hand-cam might just come in handy should the weather act-up….
Yeah. It’s the Oldsmobile Edgartown with its distinctive keg styling. Equipped with seven and one-half gallon (”pony” version) or available fifteen gallon tank, mirrors on the ceiling, emits only harmless methane, spider-vein finish and lots of “vigah” for those days when the bridge just doesn’t go where you’re going.
No need to bail when the going gets rough, plenty of ceiling room for hours and hours of air pocket fun if the bouyancy system every fails. But it won’t. This baby keeps going. Damn the lobster traps Doddster! Full speed ahead!
I just can’t remember,
What model were you?
A Cutlass, an Eighty-Eight
or a Four-Four-Two?
I loved all your steel,
Your chrome and naugahyde,
The big bench seat,
Two chicks by my side.
Wet bar? That’s funny.
My flashy road-rocket
Had ice under the seat,
Me, a fifth in my pocket.
We cut you to fragments
No piece of you found.
Thank God no EBay
To pass you around.
Was I a coward?
Come back with a boat?
Hell, get a neck brace,
Mine the sympathy vote.
Save Her? My God!
Surely you jest,
First call a lawyer,
It’s always the best.
You ask if I’m guilty,
You don’t get it, you see.
I answer to no one.
I’m Ted Kennedy.
John Kerry remarked today or yesterday that President Bush’s fall from a mountain bike was because the “training wheels fell off.”
Now, we really have to consider the possibility of too closely aligned marriages in the Forbes and Winthrop families here, because the result over generations is often something like John Kerry. Call it Forbes-Winthrop Syndrome.
But this sort of comment will be funny to three groups:
1) The adenoidal nose-pickers and narrow foreheads over at the DU and Move-On.
2) The Leftist upper classses, or the attenuated version of the Camelot aristocracy. All the pretensions and none of courage, class, or dignity of the former. The dirtier the joke the better.
3) Most of the Democrats in Congress, who have Pelosi’s Disease, which is sort of like Forbes-Winthrop Syndrome.
Finally, it conclusively proves one thing about Kerry. He is pathetically lacking in “class” and character. He has tried to buy it, to marry it, to wear it, to lie it into existence, to “elect” himself to it, to own it, to date it, to drive it, to pilot it, to ride it, but the fact of who he is remains. A lowlife, ever-sinking, malicious worm-like dimwit on his way to the bottom.
After reading the accusations of fellow officer Thomas Wright and Kerry’s Commanders, I looked up his time of service on the Swift Boats from his bio on his campaign site, and the time line reads, Nov 17, 1968 reported for duty with Coastal Division 14 at Cam Ranh Bay, on Dec 6, 1968 transferred to Coastal 11 at An Thoi near Phu Quoc Island, on Dec 13, transferred to Coastal 13 at Cam Ranh Bay. In late Jan 1969 he was transferred back to Coastal 11, in the Mekong Delta, where he stayed until April when he left Viet Nam. This time line matches with, and proves, that these Commanders are telling the truth. John Kerry has not changed his personality in these 30 plus years, and I, for one, do not want the “Boston Strangler” for MY CIC, I do not trust his capability at all to lead us in this War on Terror. John, just throwing this out here for those who still think the Swiftees are lying.
And no, I don’t expect this story to get any kind of network broadcast coverage.
Sharon:
The way things are going, The War on Terror is likely to die on the vine whether Kerry wins or not. The past month has been very bad. The forces of appeasement are building everywhere, and we have much to be afraid of. We were the only Western country willing to fight them without qualification, but that is changing.
I think we have a good chance of holding our own. Al Qaeda is probably unable to prevent significant terror attacks thgs year, even if they are smart enough to do so. Historrically, people rally behind the leadership, and the hawks, after such a strie.
Hence we may finally wake up the sleeping giant.
I am either cynical or realistic enough to believe that in some dark Democratic conference room, a strategy has been concocted to blame the administration for terror attacks down the road.
I know this is already being done as a casual byproduct of partisan politics, and represents an excess of hatred for George Bush. But I am referring to a root and branch strategy to link future attacks to the “invasion” of Iraq.
We already see it in Al Qaeda’s propaganda. It follows that since The Left already accepts, to some degree, that Middle Eastern terrorism is a result of Western interference, that this idea could mature into something worse. Outright blame. I have seen something like this locally, among a group of my clients who seem to be speaking the same language. George Bush is CAUSING terrorism.
This is very troubling. A new expression of the insanity of The Left.
Hi fellow Comrades!
im from Nairobi,Kenya & i am one of THE supporters of bush,most of ma’neighbus just believe what they see or hear on CNN.am new to this website & i believe kerry is a man of moral turpitude & just goes with the crowd he thinks will deliver the votes.LONG LIVE GEORGE WALKER BUSH & AMERICA.
(Tanks 4 supporting israel,our nation supports Israel & America thats why we get attacks by al’qaeda)
Yeshua -
There are two possibilities. Yeshua is an unfortunate Sub-Saharan inhabitant who struggles for freedom and recognizes the source of it in the world. If this is true, we love you.
The other is that this is some lemon-head Lefty cretin who is using the circumstances and lingo of a benighted soul for laughs. I opt for this one. You really ought to get out of your Mother’s furnace room, buy a tube of Clearasil and stop the perpetual self-abuse, you dung beetle.
You guys have got it all wrong Bush has no clue. The lefties are right, Bush has caused everything and if we just say sorry and come home Al Queda will forgive us and be our friends, just like the French!! And as for Kerry being President Oh, my gosh I can’t go on with this!! The very idea is just too scary to fathom!!! To put things in percentages, as some of you gentlemen like, if Kerry was 2% of the man George W Bush is I might not mind letting him pat my dog. But only once.
We have enjoyed reading your comments guys!!
Isn’t it interesting how the Kerry supporters always refuse to answer a question about Kerry, but always attack President Bush. Kerry supporters know that his ‘medals’ were all faked. Kerry’s supporters always remind me of kids in the third grade fighting with each other in a school yard. Hopefully some day they will grown up and become responsible adults.
I forgot to mention that I agree with Kerry/Edwards that there are two Americas. One America hates America and all it stands for, while the other America loves the constitution and all it stands for.
Maybe someday the liberals like Kerry/Edwards will join the group that believes in liberty and the constitution.
Thank You! As an ex-marine that served in Vietnam twice; that came back to this country on a strecher; John Kerry is a joke! John Kerry is the Jessica Lynch of the Vietnam War.
THANKS
they say democrats are for the little guy. heres a little anecdotal evidence to the contrary.there were several sites the dems couldv used to host their convention in boston….which would not have disrupted the city as it did. but ted kennedy and kerry wanted to go “first class”, even though it was common knowledge that due to the indefensibleness of the fleet center, vehicle and foot traffic would be non existent in boston for 4 days from 4pm to midnite.
so..they held it at the fleet, and buisness owners report they hadnt experienced such a drop in buisness since the blizzrd of “78. some much for the little guy.
I believe John Kerry has the spine of a jelly fish and is a sad uxcuse for a man Real men fought in the war and did not return there medals were returned to there familys and I would personally like to see him in prison for what he has said about being a war hero or shall i say what his adviors said he should say we damn sure dont need another Bill clinton in office which is exactly what it would be like if kerry was president his wife is the bread winner of his relationship and men like that are cowards and lazy what kind of president would that make! He is right about one thing….. oh wait there is nothing he can HONESTLY say he sticks up for because he doesnt discuss issues he bashes Bush It would be a sad day in american history if kerry was president!!!!
guys, the difference between vietnam and WW11 is that if kerry did what he did during WW11 he would have been tried and executed for treason. our country has drastically changed since the advent of the longhaired maggots in the 60’s.
You guys are all correct. Kerry’s war record - what crap. Now lets talk about something good like George W’s war record - oh wait I forgot - MAMA’S BOY DOESN’T HAVE ONE. Idiots!
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